The official Chef server AMI lets you automate your infrastructure, manage scale and complexity, and gain a deep understanding of your infrastructure. This AMI is preconfigured with Chef server as well as the following premium features: Chef Analytics, the Chef management console, and Chef reporting. Enable these features with a single click. You'll be billed through your AWS account, based on hourly usage. Some reasons to use this AMI are: to adopt a robust automation platform for both your datacenters and your cloud instances, to use Chefs premium features to learn whats happening on your servers, to take advantage of Chefs DevOps support team, and to evaluate a move from open-source Chef to Chefs premium offering.